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Halloween (1978)

Name: Halloween
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: drama film, horror film, independent film
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 7.7

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later,…

Directed by John Carpenter · Shot by Dean Cundey · Cut by Tommy Lee Wallace · Music by John Carpenter · Ratio 2.35:1 · 92 min

Behind the scenes

Back To Haddonfield (Halloween Kills) | Behind The Screams | Fear — Fear: The Home Of Horror · 10 min
Behind the Scenes: Halloween (Carpenter, 1978) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence — Serious Feather · 23 min

Elsewhere

More by John Carpenter

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts — 1962
Terror from Space — 1963
Captain Voyeur — 1969
Dark Star — 1974
Assault on Precinct 13 — 1976
Someone's Watching Me! — 1978
Elvis — 1979
The Fog — 1980
Escape from New York — 1981
Halloween: Extended Edition — 1981
The Thing — 1982
Christine — 1983
Starman — 1984
Big Trouble in Little China — 1986
Prince of Darkness — 1987
They Live — 1988
Memoirs of an Invisible Man — 1992
Body Bags — 1993
In the Mouth of Madness — 1995
Village of the Damned — 1995
Escape from L.A. — 1996
Vampires — 1998
Ghosts of Mars — 2001
The Ward — 2010

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